Clothes-drier.



J. KRAMER.

CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY I3. 1915. 1,214,182, Patented Jan.30,1917.

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CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLICATION FILED JULYIB. 1915.

1,214,182. Patented Jan. 30, 1917.

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CLOTHES-DRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Fatented J an. 30, 1917.

Application filed 1115,13, 1915. semi No. 39,531.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, JOSEPH KRAMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Dri'ers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes dri'ers of the sort which is adapted to be supported from a window frame or the like.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a clothes drier which is adapted to be detachably connected to any suitable support, as for instance a window frame, and which will carry one or more clothes lines which are endwise movable and which are also bodily movable.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less broad than those stated above, together with the advantages inherent, will be in part obvious and in part specifically referred to in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts, and applications of principles constituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplated will appear from the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as a part of this specification, and in which I have shown a merely preferred form of embodiment of the invention, Figure l is a view partly in section and partly in plan, illustrating a device embodying my invention, as applied to the window frames and adjacent masonry of two adjoining windows; Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail illustrating one form of connection between the main supporting member and the window frame; Fig. 3 is a view partly in section and partly in side elevation further illustrating the subject-matter of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is an enlarged view partly in section and partly in elevation taken on the line 4.4 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the numerals on the drawings, and particularly to Fig. 1, there is indicated at 5 the masonry or wall of a building, in which are formed the usual apertures for windows. The window frames are indicated by the numeral 6, and I have shown the invention in Fig. 1 applied to two adjoining window frames. It should be understood, however, that the device may just as well be used in connection with one window frame, and in fact it need not be used in connection with a window at all.

Ithas a particular adaptation, however, in connection with windows and is therefore a valuable adjunct to the ordinary apartment orflat. v

The device includes a pair of main supports 7 and 8,which may be in the form of long bars of angle or channel iron as shown. Each of these bars 7 and 8 may be connected at the selected place on the window frame or other point of support, as by means of a detachable plate 9 detachably secured in position by means of a thumb screw 10, said plate having a loop 11 engaging with a loop 12 at the inner end of the bar. Thus each pair is detachably and pivotally connected at its inner end to the window frame or other point of support. In place of this pivotal and detachable connection shown in Figs. 1 and 3-, I may "employ the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, in which the plate 9 is provided with a ball 14, and the inner endof the rod 7 or 8 is provided with a two part socket member to engage over the ball 14, said two part socket member comprising a curved end-portion of the rod 8 indicated by the numeral 15, and a separate plate 16, which is held in the proper relation to the end-portion l5, and in engagement with the ball 14, by means of a thumb screw 17. Each bar 7 and 8 is provided with a preferably round rod 18 secured at each end to the rods 7 and 8, preferably on the inner face thereof, each round rod 18 constituting a slideway, on which are slidable a plurality of hooks 19 best shown in Fig. 4. Each of these hooks 19 includes a body portion which embraces the rod 18, and two hook portions 20 and 21. Each hook portion 20 is adapted to be engaged by the loop 22 on the end of a sheave 24. There will be just as many of the hooks 19 slidable on the slide rod 18 on the channel iron 7 as there are on the slide rod 18 of the channel iron 8, and there will be a sheave 24 for each one of the hooks 19. The corresponding sheaves on the two slide rods 18 will be connected by means of an endless clothes line 25 which passes around the pulley wheels of the two sheaves, as shown in Fig. 1. The series of hooks 19 on the one slide rod 18 are all connected together by means of the lower course of a rope 26, which is made fast to the several hook portions 21 of the hooks 19, as by means of non-slipping knots such as shown in Fig. 4. These knots are regularly spaced and far enough apart so that if a pull is exercised on the upper course 27 of the rope 26, in the direction of the arrow, the several hooks 19 on slide rod 18 will be pulled apart as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. This rope 26 passes around a pulley 28 secured on the inner face of supporting channel irons 7 or 8 and may be securely fastened about a cleat 29 secured on the window frame. The supporting channel bars 7 and 8 are held in the desired parallel relation as by means of chains 30 detachably secured to the outer ends of the channel irons 7 and 8 as indicated at 31-, said chains being also, if preferable, detachably secured to the upper portion of the window frame, as indicated at 32; and suitable braces 34: may also be provided, extending from the wall of the building and detachably engaging suitable lugs 35 on the channel irons, these braces 34 serving to prevent lateral movement of the channel irons.

In use, the channel bars 7 and 8 may be entirely removed from their operative position upon first detaching the braces 34, then detaching the inner ends of the rods from their fastening plates 9, whereupon the bars 7 and 8 may be pulled into the building through the window, and after they are drawn in the chain 30 may be released from its detachable connection 31 at the outer end of each channel iron 7 and 8, or from its detachable fastening 32 at the upper end of the window frame. The rope 26 will also have been released from the cleat 29, and the several pairs of sheaves 241 detached from their respective hooks 20. In the reverse operation the channel irons 7 and 8 are put into position by first connecting the chains 30 to the bars and to the window frame or frames, then pushing out the channel irons 7 and 8 through the window, then securing the inner ends of the bars to the fastening plates 9 and connecting the braces 34:. The several hooks 19 on each slide rod 18 will be close together at the inner end of the respective slide rods 18, and within easy reach of a person within the room. A pair of the sheaves 24, with the endless clothes line 25 thereon, is now engaged over the hooks 20 of the forward pair of hooks 19 on the respective slide rods 18. A number of articles of clothes to be dried are now suspended from the line 25 in the ordinary way, and thereupon the ropes 26 are manipulated so as to slide these first two sheaves 24 outwardly along the slide rods 18 a sufficient disv tance so that another pair of sheaves 24: and

endless clothes line 25 may be engaged with the second opposed pair of hooks 20, and after this second line 25 has been loaded, the ropes 26 are again manipulated to draw it forwardly on the slide rods 18. At the same time the first line 25 will be drawn forwardly maintaining its predetermined spaced relation to the second line. And so on with the three or four lines, or as many as are employed. After the clothing has been sufficiently dried a pull upon the lower course of the rope 26 toward the window will cause the several lines 25 to move successively toward the window and they may V be stripped one after another. Of course in these various manipulations of the ropes 26 the latter must be secured to and released from the cleat 29 as occasion may require.

Inasmuch as many changes could be made in the above construction, and many apparently widely diflerent embodiments of my invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim:

'1. In a device of the kind described, a pair of elongated supporting members, a fastening plate detachably carried by and removable with each of said supporting members, and clothes line supporting means slidable along each supporting member.

2. In a device of the kind described, a

pair of elongated supporting members, a fastening plate pivotally and detachably carried by and removable with each of said supporting members, and clothes line supporting means slidable along each supporting member.

3. In a device of the kind described, a pair.

4C. In a device of the kind described, a plurality of elongated supporting members, a fastening plate pivotally and detachably carried by and removable with each of said supporting members, suspension means for the other end of each supporting member, a plurality of clothes line supporting means slidable along the elongated supporting members, and means for connecting to getherand for causing sliding movement of the clothes line supporting means on each elongated member.

5. In a device of the kind described, an elongated supporting member, a slide rod connected thereto in parallel, a plurality of hook members slidable on said slide rod. each of said hook members being provided with a bent portion for detachably engaging a sheave and with another portion for engaging a rope or chain.

6. In a device of the kind described, an elongated supporting member, a slide rod connected thereto in parallel, a plurality of hook members slidable on said slide rod, each of said hook members being provided With a bent portion for detachably engaging a sheave and With another portion for engaging a rope or chain, and said elongated Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the supporting member being provided With a pulley at its outer end over Which said rope or chain passes.

7 In a device of the kind described, supporting members, a slide rod connected thereto, a plurality of members slidable on said slide rod each of said slidable members being provided With a portion for detachably engaging a sheave.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature.

JOSEPH KRAMER.

Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G. 

